Are you obsessed with likes? Well, Facebook might remove their counts.

Facebook wants to know whether its users would prefer like, reaction, and video view counts to be hidden from posts — and, starting today, it's already testing this in Australia.

A company spokesperson told TechCrunch that this is a "limited test," with the purpose of gathering feedback "to understand whether this change will improve people’s experiences.”

The way the test is currently implemented, like, reaction, and video view counts aren't completely gone, they're just private to everyone except the post's author. Other users can still see who liked or reacted to a post, so I guess they'll be able to count them manually, but it certainly puts less emphasis on the sheer number of how many people pressed the like button under a post. Comment counts will still be displayed, though. Read more...

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